Role of ERas in promoting tumour-like properties in mouse embryonic stem cells

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6939, 2003, Pages 541-545

  Takahashi, Kazutoshi ^a   Mitsui, Kaoru ^a   Yamanaka, Shinya ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CYTOLOGY; DNA; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; TUMORS;

STEM CELLS;

GENES;

MEDICINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STEM CELL;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; 3T3 CELLS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYO; GENES, RAS; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS; ONCOGENE PROTEIN P21(RAS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RAF; PSEUDOGENES; STEM CELLS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038100185     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01646     Document Type: Article

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